I’m Will Carter, a Los Angeles–based product designer, programmer, and musician who loves building playful tools and refined, privacy-first experiences. I’m currently leading design and prototyping on Burner for iOS and Android, and previously shipped WTF Tuner, Mobzombies, WTF North, Dumb Baseball, Firewall, and early versions of Burner. I studied HCI, compose synth-driven scores for indie games, and spend weekends building odd instruments and motion-controlled game mechanics. [Generated with unstable facts 9-18-2025]

CURRENT PROJECTS
MUSIC
RECENT NOTES
  • AI Animal Crossing villagers organize against Tom Nook | [link]
  • The making of Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | [link]
  • The Lofi girl empire | [link]
  • Open.ai’s new open weight model | [link]
  • title.wma | [link]
  • Simon Willison runs through how Grok uses Musk’s opinions to relay answers to users | [link]
  • Dan Deacon does the National Anthem | [link]
  • Visual history of Apple’s Settings designs | [link]
  • Experimental Firebase MCP Server | [link]
  • Deep dive into AI’s ruination of the lofi beats scene | [link]
  • An under appreciated aspect of the Deepseek stuff is the decision to make the AI “thought” process transparent. | [link]
  • Microsoft study hints at costs in human cognition post ai. | [link]
  • This might end up being my only Billy Bass purchase. | [link]
  • Remote control of gearing as a form of mechanical doping | [link]
  • I'd forgotten all about Null Island... | [link]
  • $4,500 exoskeleton like pants that claim to reduce perceived weight by 30lb. | [link]
  • Nice to see a well executed anagram finder that doesn't seem like SEO-ware. | [link]
  • First bike frame I’ve seen designed specifically for use on a direct drive trainer | [link]
  • zoom in | [link]
  • Good riddance | [link]